Posts By: Rebecca Haden

Certified Rexroth Repair Shops

Are you thinking about having your servo motor, drive, and control repairs done at a Certified Rexroth Repair Shop? Think again. Rexroth doesn’t certify third party repair shops. They don’t sell parts to third party repair shops. They don’t provide specs or training for third party repair shops. Rexroth factory repairs and remans get you… Read more »

Rexroth Goes 3-D

The Rexroth Foundry has been around for centuries, using special tools to create a mold from sand before casting components. The tools must be designed and made individually for each new product, and this is the most expensive part of the casting process. So, while casting might be the most cost-effective and the best option… Read more »

Rexroth Predictions about Manufacturing in 2025

Rexroth has a list of five things that will probably be gone in 2025. Topping the list is the idea of replacing machinery on a certain schedule, whether it’s working or not. New sensors and the Internet of Things will let machinery tell engineers when it’s time for update or repair. That means that surprise… Read more »

Avoiding Shocks with Your Ecodrive Units

It may happen someday that you have to turn off your Ecodrive or other legacy Rexroth Indramat parts. Maybe you want to move them to another room, or maybe the room they’re in has to power down for some reason. Whatever the reason, there are safety measures that must be taken when you do this…. Read more »

Rexroth Perfects Pharma Packaging

Getting products into packages can be difficult in any industry, but in pharmaceuticals, it includes some additional challenges. Dosages must be precise, packaging must suit the various delivery methods from syringes to oral liquids to capsules to sprays, and cleanliness is non-negotiable. The keys to success? Precision, flexibility, and communication among all the moving parts… Read more »

Automation and the Middle Class

If you’re keeping up on manufacturing, there are a couple of topics that never go away: how come we don’t have the workers we need, and why are robots taking our jobs? The two things go together largely because, according to conventional wisdom, what we really need is workers with the knowledge and skills to… Read more »

Rexroth Flexibility

CPG manufacturing and packaging continues to be increasingly about flexibility. Flexibility can be the enemy of efficiency. When you have to stop a line and change for a new package or formulation, you’re wasting time. But there are ever more reasons to do so: Special packaging to meet the requirements of specific retailers A/B testing… Read more »

Phishing in Phactories

A few months ago a steel mill in Germany suffered serious damage when their blast furnace couldn’t be shut down. On investigation, it was determined that someone had opened a phishing message and allowed hackers access to the controls. Phishing is the sending of deceitful email messages designed to get you to open an attachment… Read more »

The Internet of Manufacturing?

The Internet of Things is coming from dreams and plans to reality, but some people in manufacturing are suggesting that IoT must include the Internet of Manufacturing Things, or even just the Internet of Manufacturing. Many IoT applications in other fields are about adding computers and internet capability to things that don’t currently communicate at… Read more »

The Friday Rexroth Coffee Break Movie

The new Rexroth cartoons have music and narration that will make you think of James Bond, while industrial motion control unfolds silently and discreetly in minimalistic animation. This classic Rexroth video from 2010, however, is as far from self-effacing sophistication as you can get. Your Rexroth motion control technology is a cheetah chasing down a… Read more »